Word: carmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HURRICANE LUCK, by Carl Carmer (Aladdin; $2), finds the author of Stars Fell on Alabama in a Florida seaport town telling the heartwarming story of a boy who loves his fisherman dad and vice versa...
...Carl Carmer...
...music and accepted a birthday book of greetings from several hundred statesmen and former colonists. She was, said Mrs. MacDowell in her thank-you speech, "a very ordinary woman who was given a very great opportunity which I se zed.'' And from Colony President Carl Carmer there was further good news. The proceeds of a fund-raising campaign now under way will be turned over to Mrs. MacDowell on her 95th birthday next November. The hope, he said, is to raise "a thousand dollars for each year of Mrs. MacDowell's life and a few extra thousand...
...Massachusetts' famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine in his spare time with the help of only one paid hand. He wangles free manuscripts from members of the American Association for State and Local History, his chief backer, and name writers, e.g., Carl Carmer, Roger Butterfield, who are also interested in livening up history. Editor Newton's biggest problem is to get his scholarly contributors to write a colorful style instead of "plodding into the facts and proceeding in dull and orderly fashion to the conclusion" and to get the articles in on time...